Companies with customer experience management (CEM) programs rely heavily on customer feedback in making business decisions, including, setting strategy, compensating employees, allocating company resources, changing business processes, benchmarking best practices and developing employee training programs just to name a few. The quality of the customer feedback directly impacts the quality of these business decisions. Poor […]
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Those words are as true today as they were in 1905 when George Santayana coined that phrase. In 2003, the Net Promoter Score (NPS) was formally introduced by Fred Reichheld. His and his co-developer’s overstated claim that the NPS was the best predictor of business growth […]
I hope you are all having a great holiday season with your loved ones. I would like to take this opportunity to look back on the previous 12 months and look ahead to the new year. Although I have been researching, writing and consulting in the customer feedback space for 20+ years, I only began regularly […]
Companies rely on different types of statistical analyses to extract information from their Customer experience management (CEM) data. For example, segmentation analysis (using analysis of variance) is used to understand differences across key customer groups. Driver analysis (using correlational analysis) is conducted to help identify the business areas responsible for customer dis/loyalty. These types of analyses are […]
Knowledge is power in the world of customer service. How this knowledge is acquired, understood and consumed will have a substantial impact on your business success. To help customer experience professionals succeed, Omega Management Group and its strategic partner, Anthony & Alexander Group, are providing a solution with their View From the Top (VFT-500) Research Panel, an exclusive […]
The content of this blog post is an email I sent to Twitter. I wrote the email in response to a poor customer experience I had with them a couple of months ago. Because my experience occurred through their support channel, I emailed their partner@twitter.com address, instead of support@twitter.com. I sent the email on Nov […]
Customer Experience Management (CEM) programs are complex, data intensive programs. To be successful, you need to effectively communicate information about that program to important stakeholders, including employees, partners, and customers. We know that loyalty leading companies communicate customer initiatives throughout the company, from top executives to front-line employees. For example, in a best practices study on […]
Earlier this month, I spoke at the CustomerThink Customer Experience Summit 2011, a free virtual summit featuring Customer Experience researchers and practitioners sharing leading-edge practices to engage with today’s empowered customers. The speakers showed how you can create a compelling customer experience that gives your organization a competitive advantage. For my talk, Asking the Right Customer Experience Questions, I presented […]
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